You know if Microsoft claims that their motivation to do a certain thing is “so we can support standards better,” you should probably take a second look.

Here’s a story of how they botched MSN and why their cover-up story was so outlandish. An excerpt which I challenge you to read out loud without laughing:


?All of our development work for the new MSN.com is … W3C standard,? said Bob Visse, the director of MSN marketing, referring to the World Wide Web Consortium, which is developing industry standards for web technologies. ?For browsers that we know don?t support those standards or that we can?t insure will get a great experience for the customer, we do serve up a page that suggests that they upgrade to an IE browser that does support the? standards.